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A three-year-old child
- Uses language as the main means of communicating
- Takes
a number of turns in conversation
- Initiates conversations
and increasingly able to maintain topic of conversation
- Imagination
evident in play e.g. produces imaginary cat from pocket
for adult to stroke, says the cat is hungry
- Enacts less
familiar events in play e.g. visit to dentist, zoo
- Becomes
involved in sustained make-believe play with peers
- Able
to shift focus of attention from activity engaged in
to verbal direction and back to activity, but needs
adult support to do so
- Uses strategy of offering explanation for questions
not understood
- Understands all common action words, object
names, most common adjectives
- Understands 'Who?', 'Whose?',
'Why?' and occasionally 'How many?'
- Follows instructions
containing three, sometimes four key words e.g. 'Find
the big beaker and put it in Johnny’s
bag.'
- Understands many words referring to basic concepts
e.g. in, on, under, big, small, long, short, Expressive
vocabulary on average consists of 700 words
- Asks questions using 'Why?'
- Talks increasingly about
the past and future; tells short, often disjointed, stories
- Speech
is mostly understandable with some continuing immaturities
- Uses
grammatical structures:
- pronouns I, he, she, you, they,
we
- verbs can, will, is, are
- verb endings pushed, stopped
- negatives mid sentence
I not like it
- articles a, the
- conjunctions and, because
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